Françoise Sagan profile
In The Guardian Richard Williams profiles the Bonjour Tristesse-author, in François Sagan: 'She did what she wanted' (yeah, you figure they'd have tried to get her name right in the headline,...
View ArticleMiddlemarch enthusiasm
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) has certainly gotten a lot of attention -- but if it gets them talking about (and possibly reading ...)...
View ArticleChristoph Hein on Sara Bershtel
Thursday evening Sara Bershtel received the Friedrich Ulfers Prize (awarded to someone: "who has championed the advancement of German-language literature in the United States")....
View ArticleIsraeli-Arab literature
In Haartez Chassia Chomsky Porat and Azar Dakwar try to make the case that Israeli-Arab literature is part of the nation's canon too -- though they admit that currently essentially: Arabic...
View ArticleSkyscraper review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tahsin Yücel's Skyscraper, a novel set in Istanbul, in 2073. I bought my copy of this book (used, at the Strand) -- and it...
View ArticleMarch online issues
The March issues of several online periodicals are now up, including Words without Borders' Writing from Venezuela-themed issue, as well as the March issue of Open Letters Monthly.
View ArticleChimamanda Adichie Q & A
In The Sun Abanobi Chika and Odogwu Obinna have a Q & A with Chimamanda Adichie Among her comments: That's why I don't like granting interviews, because whatever you say, in 20...
View ArticleFrankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honour - 2018: Georgia
This year's 'Guest of Honour' at the Frankfurt Book Fair will be Finland, in 2015 it will be Indonesia, and while 2016 and 2017 are apparently still up for grabs, they announced a few days ago...
View ArticleHunting Season review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Andrea Camilleri's pre-Inspector Montalbano-series novel from 1992, Hunting Season, finally coming out in English, too.
View ArticleShortlist: Rossica Translation Prize
They've announced the shortlist for the Rossica Translation Prize for translations from the Russian -- and on the same page they also list the longlisted titles, a great resource for those...
View ArticleShortlist: Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award
They've announced the shortlist for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award (amazingly managing not to mention the titles of the shortlisted stories in the official announcement ... see them at...
View ArticleJay Rubin on Murakami
Via I'm pointed to Louis Templado's profile of Jay Rubin: Translator offers a peek into his life -- and Haruki Murakami's as well in The Asahi Shimbun.
View ArticlePhilip Roth Q & A
The New York Times Book Review has a solid Q & A that Daniel Sandstrom conducted with Philip Roth (The Plot Against America, etc.) for Svenska Dagbladet, My Life as a Writer.
View ArticleSergei Dovlatov revival ?
Sergei Dovlatov -- the Soviet writer who emigrated to the US in 1979 and died, aged just forty-eight, in 1990 -- has been getting more attention recently, with several of his books recently...
View ArticleCreative writing courses
In The Independent Alice Jones and Nick Clark report that Creative writing courses are a waste of time, says Hanif Kureishi (who teaches one). So, for example, Kureishi acknowledges: A...
View ArticleWriting in (and away from) ... Zimbabwe
In The Standard they consider the Diaspora influence on Zim literature, including in such works as Brian Chikwava's Harare North. They note: But what is also uniquely apparent is that...
View ArticleThe Good Life Elsewhere review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Vladimir Lorchenkov's novel from Moldova, The Good Life Elsewhere, just out from New Vessel Press (who continue to impress with...
View ArticleOkey Ndibe Q & A
In the Brown Daily Herald Emily Passarelli has a Q & A with Foreign Gods, Inc.-author Okey Ndibe.
View ArticlePrix Goncourt du premier roman
There's the prix Goncourt -- the biggest of the French literary prizes -- and then there are a whole lot of secondary Goncourt-prizes -- le Goncourt des Lycéens; le choix de l'Orient; le choix...
View ArticleViviane review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Julia Deck's Viviane -- in the running for quite a few prizes when it came out in France in 2012, and now coming out in English...
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